Investigations: Death Wish

In terse, flat language, a Civil Aero
nautics Board investigative report last week laid down its chilling
conclusion: "The total evidence clearly indicates that the captain
and first officer of Flight 773 were shot by a passenger. As a result,
the uncontrolled aircraft began the descent which ended in impact with
the hill."

Forty-one passengers and a crew of three, on Pacific Air Lines Flight
773 bound from Reno to San Francisco, had died in a pyre of flaming
gasoline on the morning of last May 7, when the plane plunged into a...